Mathieu Dufour’s research while affiliated with Université du Québec en Outaouais and other places

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Publications (10)


La construction discursive des rapports de force dans les éditoriaux de La Presse : le cas des médecins et des infirmièresThe Discursive Construction of Power Relations in La Presse Editorials: The Case of Doctors and NursesLa construcción discursiva de correlaciones de poder en los editoriales de La Presse: el caso de los médicos y de las enfermeras
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October 2019

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Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations

Mathieu Dufour

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Audrey Laurin-Lamothe

Par le biais d’une analyse thématique d’éditoriaux de La Presse sur près de 35 ans, soit de 1980 à 2015, nous montrons comment s’est graduellement construit, au Québec, un discours qui prône une augmentation constante de la rémunération des médecins, alors même que, parallèlement, les infirmières recevaient un traitement asymétrique. Notre analyse s’inscrit dans la continuité des recherches sur les facteurs ayant influencé l’évolution de la rémunération des travailleurs à partir des années 1980. Notre objectif dans cet article est de cerner si le rapport de force de ces deux catégories de travailleurs s’est détérioré ou a été renforcé sur le plan narratif grâce au portrait qu’en brosse La Presse , l’un des quotidiens les plus lus du Québec. Jusqu’à l’aube des années 2000, les médecins sont décrits et considérés au même titre que les autres travailleurs, notamment les infirmières, c’est-à-dire que leurs revendications salariales ou relatives à leurs conditions de travail sont dépeintes négativement par les éditorialistes. Cependant, au début du présent siècle s’opère un changement discursif qui justifie dorénavant la hausse de la rémunération des membres de cette profession, discours principalement basé sur l’argument de la nécessité d’un rattrapage avec le reste du Canada. Par la suite, dans le cadre d’une analyse thématique, les données relatives à la rémunération des médecins sont comparées à l’augmentation des salaires des infirmières, qui elles n’ont pas bénéficié d’un tel traitement et qui font l’objet d’une dévalorisation associée à la représentation genrée de leur pratique. Au final, cette recherche constitue une contribution à une meilleure connaissance du discours médiatique en tant que reflet et moteur des rapports de force entre catégories sociales qui bénéficient de privilèges inégaux. Notre étude illustre également le traitement différencié réservé à deux groupes de professionnels en santé.


Topoï et légitimation des politiques austéritaires. Une étude des éditoriaux de La Presse de 1980 à 2015
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January 2019

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Langage et société

Topoi and the legitimization of austerity policies. A study of La Presse’s editorials from 1980 to 2015 This article focuses on the dissemination of the topoi of a neoliberal vulgate, by means of a longitudinal discursive analysis, from 1980 to 2015, of the editorials of La Presse, one of Quebec’s leading daily newspapers. The thematic, argumentative, pragmatic, and enunciative analysis of this corpus is conducted in dialogue with the economic theories involved in the editorial statements. For, although the popular beliefs (topoi) developed or mobilized by La Presse oversimplify these theories to the extreme, the connections between these two levels of circulation are constitutive of dispersion rules of the discursive austerity event. This study shows how the construction of an anti-deficit topos in the 1980s immediately rejects (without the need for argument) any policy involving public spending. Studying how this topos adapts to different changes in the economic situation by generating and articulating itself with other austerity-related topoi, the analysis shows the conditions of possibility of permanent austerity, legitimizing among other things a criminalization of strikes and a standardization of emergency laws, decreeing the working conditions of employees.

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Keeping Class in the Conversation in the Age of the 1%

January 2018

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American Review of Political Economy

Ten years after the crisis and six after “we are the 99%” resounded in Zuccotti Park, income inequality is still a political issue in North America. However, the way inequality is conceptualised tends to blur important distinctions amongst the people concerned, notably distinctions based on class. As professors, we feel it is important to have class be part of the conversation about inequality. This article focuses on different ways we integrate class into introductory economics courses through discussion and exercises pertaining to the teaching of inequality, as well as intergenerational mobility, poverty, exploitation, alienation, and ultimately, the American Dream.



The use of dichotomies in introductory economics

October 2017

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4 Citations

Review of Keynesian Economics

The explanation of complex issues usually requires techniques that imply some sort of abstraction. In economics, and popular discourse in general, dichotomies are an example of such devices. Be it the opposition between monetary and real phenomena, free trade and protectionism, or idealism and materialism, dichotomies are pervasive heuristic techniques. Students taking introductory courses in economics come with preconceived ideas that are, in many senses, shaped by dichotomies, which makes them a useful but tricky teaching tool. In this article, we outline a way to make use of this to transcend these priors and foster critical thinking, using one of the prominent dichotomies, that between the market and the state.


Developing Heterodox Economics Curriculum: The case of John Jay College

October 2017

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3 Citations

American Review of Political Economy

This article seeks to be a contribution to heterodox teaching initiatives by focusing on curriculum building and institutional opportunities and constraints at John Jay College, the City University of New York. The article first focuses on the need for alternative curriculums in the context of the global crisis and the crisis of economics as a discipline. Then, after some historical context to John Jay College in which opportunities arose to develop a heterodox program, the focus is on the core of the current economics curriculum and its contrasts with the mainstream. Finally, there is a discussion of institutional constraints. JEL: A2, A22, B4, B5, Z13




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... In their unit on inequality, class is absent. 21 In a forthcoming article on teaching alienation in introductory economics, we also argue how in addition to inequality, alienation is crucial to understanding capitalism, and show how both can be jointly discussed in the classroom within a class framework(Dhondt et al. 2018). ...

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Keeping Class in the Conversation in the Age of the 1%
Behind the masks of total choice: teaching alienation in the age of inequality

International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education

... This strategy, with which we've now been experimenting over several semesters, has been very successful, both for the study of alienation and the understanding of phenomena like inequality. In this article, we outline our method and discuss some of the pedagogical outcomes we have witnessed over the years as we integrated it in the curriculum of our introductory undergraduate courses (Dhondt et al. 2017;Dufour and Seda-Irizarry, 2017). ...

The use of dichotomies in introductory economics

Review of Keynesian Economics

... For example, some have designated stagnating wages as a main cause of the financial crisis (Dufour and Orhangazi, 2014;Resnick and Wolff, 2010), and an increase in the labour share is touted as a way out of the global slump (Lavoie and Stockhammer, 2012). Discussions around inequality and crisis gave rise to calls for a revamping of economics curricula to include a broader vision of the economic system than that offered by orthodox theory (Bhattacharya and Mukherjee, 2013;Dhondt et al., 2017;Peterson, 2013Peterson, , 2011Ward-Perkins and Earle, 2013). Given that current economic times can scarce be understood without a careful analysis of inequality dynamics, their study should definitely be part of the economics curriculum. ...

Developing Heterodox Economics Curriculum: The case of John Jay College

American Review of Political Economy